Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
Cornelius is a father of two. His son attends Achievement First Bridgeport Middle School, a charter school in Connecticut. Cornelius shares his experience with his charter school, saying the school’s rigor and college focus is a big part of what makes the school great. His son is so focused on going to college that he [...]
Crystal Garvin is a mother of three from Bellingham, WA. She has a degree in Early Childhood Education from Whatcom Community College. I am a stay at home mother of three children. My oldest is an Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) graduate and is currently in kindergarten. She is a model student and [...]
Erika is the daughter of two traditional public school teachers, and always assumed that her own children would go to a traditional public school. In fact, she says she was very skeptical of charter schools. Her views began to change when her daughter started kindergarten and spent all day in her traditional school sitting at [...]
Karen Martinez is the mother of seven children, the first five of whom she says struggled to succeed in the traditional education system. By the time her second youngest was in first grade, Karen says she was too frustrated to stay in the traditional school anymore. Now, after attending Rocketship Charter Schools, her daughter is [...]
Anne, a parent of three, talked with us about her experience with Rocketship Charter Schools. She says that her two adopted children from China and her one biological child all are benefiting from the multicultural atmosphere of their school. Anne says she finds the quality of education at their charter school is “a good way [...]
The House Education Committee heard testimony on bills before the legislature on establishing a statewide plan for implementing revised teacher and principal evaluations. In particular, teachers spoke up on behalf of HB 2427, which specifically includes student performance in evaluations. Teacher Caine Lowery, whose students once said that he was “the reason [they] got out [...]
Sonja Lennox is a mother of two from the city of Tacoma. She is an advocate for early learning and parent engagement across the state of Washington. She has traveled to Washington, DC and given presentations on the importance of family involvement in children’s education. Both of my children have attended Head Start. I am [...]
Sarah Ramsdell is a mother of two and lives in the Vancouver, Washington area. Everyone knows children don’t come with instruction manuals. I imagine, at some point, every parent has wished their child had. Regardless of the lack of an instruction manual, every parent is conscious of the fact that the first years of a [...]
Parent Hilda Ruiz shares her story of how a Rocketship Charter School in San Jose helped change her child’s attitude toward school and learning in just a few short months. Her daughter, who has always had an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), was reading at a second grade level when she entered Rocketship in fifth grade. [...]
I have two children enrolled in Alexander Twilight College Prep Academy, an Aspire charter school in Sacramento, CA. My daughter started at this school the first year that it opened and she was part of the first kindergarten class. We decided to enroll her there because our neighborhood school had very low scores and we [...]
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